As the Law Society's spokesman rightly said, Timothy Robinson behaved disgracefully (see [2004] Gazette, 4 November, 4). But what seems to me to be at least as disgraceful is the fact that the investigation took ten years to complete and cost £40 million in legal fees.


While I don't doubt that the scam operated by Mr Robinson and his staff was more sophisticated than simply submitting an excessive number of green forms, it beggars belief that such vast sums of presumably public time and money can have gone into uncovering wrongdoing on such a scale. Perhaps we should have an investigation into what on the face of it appears to be an even bigger scandal than Mr Robinson's behaviour, but I suppose that any such investigation would take at least three years to complete and cost several more millions.



David Lang, Blanchards, Blandford Forum, Dorset